Ilias Tsagklis is a senior software engineer working in the telecom domain. He is an applications developer in a wide variety of applications/services. Ilias is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.

Best Of The Week – 2011 – W43

* Hello JavaFX 2.0: Introduction by NetBeans 7.1 beta: A nice tutorial which serves as a soft introduction to the brand new JavaFX 2.0. The author uses NetBeans 7.1 which supports JavaFX 2.0. After the development environment is set up, a simple programs is created for demonstration purposes.

* Why are you still deploying overnight?: In this, the author describes the problems of a well established deployment technique, deploying overnight. Some of them are, assumption that there will be problems with the deployment, tired people are taking care of a complex procedure and there are no means of doing a phased rollout or a quick rollback.

* 5 Ways to ensure you geeks are happy and productive: An article on how to manage geeks and how to keep them happy and productive. Some of the advices are a bit lame (“Never deprive them of free flowing caffeine.”) but the general principles are right on target (do not micromanage them, provide learning opportunities etc.).

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